{"id":2830,"date":"2022-03-07T23:35:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2022-03-07T23:35:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T03:35:04","slug":"march-exclusion-seventh-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/2830","title":{"rendered":"March Ex(clusion) \u2014 seventh day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cHow sad in our blinkered arrogance that we go across the globe to the tribal Third World to teach the impoverished a supposedly preferable culture and politics, while at home we are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2013 Victor David Hanson<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The last thing I would think is that Ukraine or any other part of the world does not have the rightful destiny of self-determination. As far as I\u2019m concerned, it\u2019s a self-evident truth. But that\u2019s a far cry from jumping into immature, self-righteous posturing or following the drumbeats that would move us toward another proxy war. I happen to be keen on the benefits of Western Civilization, and I won\u2019t apologize for it, nor deny that its finest fruit is American Exceptionalism. But that\u2019s also a far cry from endorsing the ulterior motives of the ruling elites, and how they use secrecy, lies, and propaganda to perpetuate their relentless exploitation and lust for control.\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Today&#8217;s sight bite&#8212;<\/span> A full conference table of plein air artists, <span style=\"font-style: italic\">&#8212;c-l-i-c-k&#8212;<\/span> the overwhelming majority of whom decided not to wear a face mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHow sad in our blinkered arrogance that we go across the globe to the tribal Third World to teach the impoverished a supposedly preferable culture and politics, while at home we are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,46,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}